Jorge Ramos may be exiting Univision, but the popular veteran of Spanish-language news doesn’t want to leave the media industry behind.
Ramos, who on Monday announced he was planning to leave his posts at Univision‘s “Noticero Univision” and “Il Punto” following the 2024 presidential election, has selected CAA to represent him in the next phase of his career. “This is not a farewell,” he said in a statement Monday. “I will continue anchoring Noticiero Univision until December, and afterwards I will share my professional plans. I am deeply grateful for these four decades at Univision and very proud to be part of a team that has established strong leadership over the years.”
CAA has struck up relationships with several top news anchors, including ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos and Brian Williams, the former NBC News and MSNBC anchor who signed with the agency in 2023 to help him navigate potential opportunities after he left those NBCUniversal-backed outlets.
Ramos has anchored “Noticero Univision” for 38 years. He has written 12 book and is the recipient of 10 Emmy Awards. His book, “The Way I See Things,” includes a selection of columns, written in Spanish between 1982 and 2023, that cover Ramos’s evolution as a reporter, a father, and a pundit. In 2002, he created “Despierta Leyendo,” or “Wake Up Reading,” the first book club in the history of Hispanic television.
Over the course of his career, Ramos has challenged power when he felt it was getting in the way of facts being disseminated to his audience. In 1983, in the early part of his journalistic tenure, he quit a job working on a newsmagazine for a Grupo Televisa station after he believed a report of his was being censored.
Ramos was among the Univision news staffers who pushed back on a company decision in 2023 to broadcast an interview with Trump from his Mar-A-Lago residence that raised eyebrows among Democrats and Latino advocacy organizations because it was arranged in part by the company’s business executives. Critics have asked why the Univision correspondent, Enrique Acevedo, did not challenge Trump more noticeably on camera, or point out when the former world leader made false statements on screen.
Ramos has also pressed for better representation of Spanish-language media when it comes to access to major U.S. politicians. He has grilled lawmakers on immigration policy — a top issue among his viewership — and saw his profile gain a different sort of traction in 2015 as he sought an interview with then-candidate Donald Trump. Trump, who had put Ramos’ cell-phone number on social media, famously had Ramos pushed out of a room during a press conference in Iowa, and then allowed the journalist to return.